Bring on the ScUMbums. All joking aside, you all deserve to be there more than anyone else. It'll give you a chance to lose twice to tOSU in the same season anyways :). And it will turn Vloyd into VIloyd-- six losses to JT. Buenas suerte wherever you go!

Yost said: The BCS' stated purpose is to simply match the two best teams. Period. If they're from the same conference, so be it.

Well said, Sir! If the BCS wants to add language saying "you must win your conference" or "there shall not be a rematch of a regular season game" or any other crap, they certainly can.... NEXT YEAR! But as of now, no such language exists, so let's have the two best teams in the nation play for the championship, as it should be!

I watched your video. Totally classless. Why do the Wolverine fans need to degrade their opponents? Why can't you just be happy with your team? My kids saw that video and now all they say is "Sucks". That's just wrong.

All Wolverine fans are classless since that Wolverine fan is classless and you apparently condone that behavior. Go tip a car with Indiana plates you pack of hypocrites!

Anon 5:13, you're an idiot. A team not winning its conference title and JUMPING the team that did into the title game is a travesty. But what's the problem if the team they're playing is their conference champion? Is it completely impossible that the two best teams comes from one conference?

Pull your head out of the sports media's ass for a second and recognize that this is an entirely different situation from Nebraska '02.

Why do I picture Yost (UM) looking like Jake Blues dropping Carrie Fisher (UCLA) in the muck after he said he loved her to say "We're late" and turn back to her and shrug "I gotta go". Way to sweet talk UCLA Yost!

As a Buckeye, it is great for the rivalry andd the Big Ten/Eleven to see the rest of the pretenders fall by the wayside. Here in North Atlanta, there are enough Gators on ledges, you don't want to walk near any tall buildings! As I write this Arkansas fucks up a punt. Neither team is very good.

I don't want to be negative but if Florida wins, they will probably leapfrog Michigan to #2.

Remember after the tOSU/Michigan game... the national press was giddy at the thought of a rematch. In fact, Michigan lost and still stayed #2.

But, by the end of that week, people started fussing in the media and even though Michigan did better on the road against ND than USC did at home, USC moved ahead of an idle Michigan on the weight of the human polls.

With Urban "I - wont - recognize - Michigan - as - national - champs" Meyer's very public bellyaching, the pollsters again will buy into some media firestorm's fuzzy logic and move Florida up.

I wonder if there's ever been a precedent (BCS or no BCS) of a team getting passed over two weekends in a row when they didn't lose???

I had to come here to see what Yost had to say about UCLA winning, and it was the same thing I said, HOLY SHIT! Now, I know life is not fair, but if the hogs don't beat Florida and they leap frog Michigan in the polls.....that will be the definition of unfair. (besides that bellyaching FL coach deserves to go down tonight!) Just my humble opinion. GO BLUE!

The announcers are always going to hype the team on the TV. They're talking to mostly fans of those teams and they know how to milk ratings. Remember the announcers talking up ND while USC was dismantling last week?

for those pointing to oklahoma and nebraska as reasons why you could not win your conference and still go to the championship (a bcs precedent):

neither team played another team from the Big 12 champ game; AND, both teams were still widely regarded as the BEST of their conference even though they did not win their conf championship game, ie. they were "regular season conference" champs.

It doesn't matter who OSU plays!! I feel like Tom Green on that movie Road Trip. "Are you here for the feeding? You're early, but you should come back 'cause it's going to be a bloodbath."Michigan is the number 2 team in the nation in my opinion but since florida won the voters pretty much have to vote you in.

The BCS' stated purpose is to simply match the two best teams. Period. If they're from the same conference, so be it.<<

Exactly.

This is why the system is broke.

YOU DID NOT WIN YOUR CONFERENCE TITLE!!! HOW, IN THE WORLD CAN YOU RATIONALIZE PLAYING FOR THE NATIONAL ONE??? ESPECIALLY, WHEN THE TEAM THAT BEAT YOU IS ALSO IN THE GAME!!

I'm happy for you, but any Michigan fan or media pundit that thinks this is good is INSANE.

Without a March Madness type playoff, a Mich v OSU game makes a mockery of the regular season and the title holders in all the conferences across the nations. College Football has been reduced to the College World Series--lose two games and go home.

The two best teams should play in the BCS.If the BCS bogus math puts Michigan at #2, so be it.At the time of tOSU's victory, I thought for sure USC would win out. But given how the season has played itself out, I'm not so sure.

The other kicker???LSU may have bought themselves a Rose Bowl.Let's say Florida goes to the BCS.Does that mean MIchigan vs. LSU???Pete Carroll has already declared that his team is going to the Rose Bowl...so does that mean M vs. USC in the Rose and LSU gets booted????Or USC vs. LSU and M gets booted????

Apparently Lloyd has taken Yost's advice. On the ESPN crawl during the Rutgers-WVa game while promoting SportsCenter after the game, it said "Why Lloyd Carr thinks there should be a rematch with Ohio State."

So all you anonymous SEC posters are going to sit here and tell us that game -- the conference championship of the "Best" conference in the country showed why FL should get a shot?

That game was sloppy and poorly played. It was circus football. Neither team could get anything done unless it was some trick play. I think I saw the waterboy involved in a flea-flicker-double reverse-lateral for a touchdown.

You call that horsehit good football? The SEC is not the best conference in the country. It is an elite conference and has some of the best names in college football, but not all the teams were good this year. A win over 'Bama and GA this year aren't that impressive. Not one win from an SEC team over a top 15 non-conference team. Keep scheduling 1AA schools.

SC fan here, still trying to get over the loss. But I just wanted to comment on the situation b/t Michigan and Florida.

In any form of lobbying among ignorant voters, negative campaigning works best. I hope for Michigan's sake, Carr doesn't he's "above" that. Urban has been ripping on Michigan all week. Coaches and Harris poll have the ignorant people when it comes to evaluating teams. Unless Carr pulls an Osborne-esque lobbying job, it'll be Roses for you in '07.

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